Crime Statistics for Sproughton, Babergh, Suffolk, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Sproughton in September 2024. There were a total of 18 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Shoplifting7
Violent Crime5
Burglary2
Vehicle Crime1
Public Order1
Criminal Damage Arson1
Other Crime1
All Crime18

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Sproughton. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.



Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Sproughton

We've taken the ten nearest places to Sproughton and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Sproughton has more crime than other surrounding areas.

LocationCrime Incidents
Chantry (1.39 miles)282
Stoke Park (2.24 miles)150
Maidenhall (2.24 miles)109
Belstead (1.96 miles)26
Sproughton18
Copdock (1.96 miles)7
Washbrook (1.39 miles)4
Washbrook Street (1.39 miles)4
Burstall (1.86 miles)1
Chattisham (2.23 miles)0

4.31%
of Bramford residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Sproughton?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Sproughton and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

LocationViolent Incidents
Chantry111
Stoke Park75
Maidenhall47
Belstead8
Sproughton5
Copdock3
Washbrook1
Washbrook Street1
Burstall0
Chattisham0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Sproughton?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Sproughton to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Sproughton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Sproughton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Sproughton have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Westgate.

#WardScore
1Westgate86
2Alexandra79
3Bridge77
4Gipping74
5Stoke Park72
6Whitehouse69
7Sprites60
8St Margaret's60
9Sproughton & Pinewood57
10Castle Hill48
11Bramford39

Which road in Sproughton has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Sproughton with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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